The US Capitol Historical Society was chartered by Congress in 1962 in order to educate the public on the history and heritage of the U.S. Capitol building. The society primarily works to further academic research regarding the capitol, but also offers educational tours and outreach programs.
The website offers information regarding society programs, an events calendar, online exhibits, and a history of the capitol building.
The Hinsdale Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation of the unique historical heritage of Hinsdale, from its founding as a small farming village to its modern day status as a suburb of Chicago. The society owns and operates four historic properties, the Hinsdale History Museum, the R. Harold Zook Home and Studio, the Historic Immanuel Hall, and the Anderson Architecture Center.
The society offers guided individual and group tours of its historic properties and special events. The website offers an events calendar, a history of the society, a history of Hinsdale, and visitor information.
The Old Stone House Museum contains 25 rooms of exhibits on 19th-century life in Vermont. The museum consists of six buildings spread over 55 acres, with the largest being Athenian Hall, a stone dormitory. The dormitory was built between 1834 and 1836 by the nation's first African American college graduate and state legislator, Reverend Alexander Twilight. Other structures on-site include Twilight's own home and an English-style barn.
The museum offers self-guided tours, hands-on activities, educational programs, and living history outreach presentations. The website offers several scavenger hunts.
The Old Governer's Mansion in Georgia is one of the nation's first examples of High Greek Revival architecture in the nation. The mansion was completed in 1839, and served as the mansion of the governor of Georgia until the Civil War. The building was placed on the national register of historic places in 1973, and currently stands as a historic house museum.
The mansion offers visitors guided tours, curator's tours, interpretive events, and occasional special events. The website offers lesson plans and field trip guides, visitor information, a history of the mansion, a virtual tour, and information regarding upcoming events.
The Minnesota State Capitol was built in 1905, and is still in service today. Restoration and preservation efforts are led by the Minnesota State Historic Society, which also leads tours of the building and provides events and educational services. Visitors to the capitol building can enjoy a variety of different attractions, from simply admiring the architecture and history of the building to viewing an ever-changing collection of art. Currently, portraits of Cass and Julia Gilbert, on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, are on display.
The site offers visitor and historical information about the museum, an events calendar, and links to other resources within the Minnesota state government.
These facsimile images of measured drawings, photographs, and written documentation cover 35,000 significant historic sites dating from the 17th to the 20th century. The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) started in 1933 as a work relief program and became a permanent part of the National Park Service the following year to document "our architectural heritage of buildings," in the words of project founder Charles E. Peterson. The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) was established in 1969 to similarly survey engineering works and industrial sites.
For each structure, the site provides from one to ten drawings, from one to 30 photographs, and from one to 50 pages of HABS text detailing the structure's history, significance, and current physical condition. The collection displays building types and engineering technologies from a farmhouse to a pickle factory, from churches to the Golden Gate Bridge.
From the Bowery Boys website:
"Trinity Church, with its distinctive spire staring down upon the west end of Wall Street, is more than just a house of worship. Over three different church buildings have sat at this site, and the current one by architect Richard Upjohn is one of America's finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture. The church collected Manhattan's upper crust for decades and functions as one of the city's most powerful landowners. Listen to our short history on the New York institution and find out who's buried in their famous churchyards—Founding Fathers, inventors and a whole lotta Astors."
This podcast from the Smithsonian American Art Museum details the history of the museum's building, once the U.S. Patent Office, or "Temple of Invention."
To listen to this podcast, scroll to the bullet point which reads, "Listen to our podcast about the magnificent building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum," and select a file type.
Dr. Lauranett Lee of the Virginia Historical Society explores ways to use oral history and historic preservation efforts to teach history. She is currently completing a commissioned project for the city of Hopewell in which she documents African American history. She discusses the mechanics of constructing a community history project and its applicability for teachers and students. The second half of the session focused on using the cultural landscape to teach history, including a walking tour of the historic Jefferson School.
To listen to this lecture, select "Podcast" under the September 4th session.
According to the Library of Congress website, "In this lecture, Timothy M. Rohan from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discusses the exhibition he curated, "Model City: Buildings and Projects by Paul Rudolph for Yale and New Haven," which draws upon works from the Paul Rudolph Archive in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was one of the most innovative American architects of the post-World War II period. The exhibition situates 13 works for Yale and New Haven by Rudolph in the context of postwar modernism, urban renewal, and their aftermath."